Series: Flavia de Luce

Numb Were the Beadsman’s Fingers by Alan Bradley #AlanBradley #BantamBooks @sophiarose1816

Numb Were the Beadsman’s Fingers by Alan Bradley #AlanBradley #BantamBooks @sophiarose1816

In a 1950’s English country village on a crumbling family estate lives a brilliant chemist and amateur-turned professional sleuth (this is her own opinion of the matter) and her quirky relations.  Flavia de Luce cannot go long without stumbling over a body and does so in this twelfth installment to the series. Alan Bradley’s Flavia […]

Posted November 4, 2026 by Sophia in Book Review / 2 Comments
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What Time the Sextant’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley #AlanBradley #BantamBooks @sophiarose1816

What Time the Sextant’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley #AlanBradley #BantamBooks @sophiarose1816

Sheer ecstasy being back in rural England of the 1950’s visiting the old Buckshaw estate and quaint village of Bishop’s Lacey following the eccentric teenage Flavia de Luce for her latest investigative escapades.  Alan Bradley has made my year by returning to this series after a five-year hiatus.  Flavia is back, a little older, but […]

Posted September 1, 2024 by Sophia in Book Review / 12 Comments
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